Our rivers, our sewers
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Our friend Daniel Alvarez, the man who kayaked from Minnesota to Key West, Fla., last year, has given us a look at the nation's biggest rivers that makes us want to turn away.
Alvarez, who is kayaking back to Minnesota by way of the Atlantic Ocean and Hudson River, provides a glimpse of the Hudson today that mirrors much of what he discovered on his trip down the Mississippi last year: We treat our great rivers as sewers.
And yet, he sees hope, which is what makes him unique.
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